Word: brush
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discussion of slavery, presenting it not merely as a brutal, exploitative era in our history but as a kind of roll call of individual tragedy in which, as chattel, "you died with no salvation and no honor in your spirit." She argues that painting slavery with a broad brush in literature, film and even political debate has kept us from knowing the real horror and heroism of the institution. "We got it all wrong," she says. "For years we've talked about the physicality of slavery--who did what and who invented that. But the real legacy lies...
Another Friday, another congressional data dump, and each one more banal than the last. When Monica says, "We gotta get you laid," it's a sure sign that this one's the one you can skip. So stand up. Brush the swarm of fluttering papers away from your face. Then sit back down and watch some baseball -- it'll do wonders for your smut-deluged soul...
...before his grand jury appearance, just about every last citizen had sent him a postcard asking him to tell the truth at all costs, and most promised to forgive him if he did. The stakes could not have been higher, for this was his last chance: he could maybe brush away lies in his Paula Jones deposition, even the bald public denials and seven months of excruciating evasion. But by August most Americans had concluded that he had fooled around, made their peace with it and just wanted him, for once, to come clean when he put his hand...
...Texas-wide version that fall. Beacham remembers predicting 5,000 participants; 48,000 showed. The next year the event went countrywide, and the National Network, which acts as an information clearinghouse for some 100 youth evangelical groups, became involved. Says Clark: "It was like lighting dry brush with a match." The religion-tracking Barna Research Group tallied more than 1 million college, high school and junior high participants in 1993; guesstimates for 1997 more than doubled that (college involvement remained minimal...
...Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill proceedings showed, it's hard to play the role of Olympian legislators while you're asking questions about pubic hair. When Congress is reduced to picking through salacious details, says Arizona Senator John McCain, a Republican, "we're all tarred with the same brush...